Profiles in "Creative Placemaking" Expertise Area

  • Mary Stokrocki is an arts educator who specializes in multicultural teaching and learning, visual culture studies, alternative learning contexts and educational use of Second Life.
  • Kaplan is a multi-instrumentalist performer and composer. His work within the arts and healthcare offers tools to support the notion that being “present,” self-aware, and team-aware are critical in all endeavors.
  • Feisst is Evelyn Smith Professor of musicology and Senior Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University. She holds a PhD in musicology from Berlin and is interested in new music in interdisciplinary contexts.
  • Professor Ellsworth is an interdisciplinary artist who exhibits nationally and internationally. She is the founding director of the Museum of Walking, Live Art Platform, Art Intersection, and Topography of Memory.
  • Tebeau is an urban, public and digital historian who studies landscape, place, and historical memory; he's written about risk, cities, and monuments; he possesses expertise in digital curation, oral history and public memory.
  • Ward's research explores the intersection of Black cultural production, culture industries and urban placemaking efforts to advance arts practice and foster inclusive community development.
  • Stauffer's scholarly interests include children, music, place, and narrative.
  • Elena Rocchi, Ph. D., Clinical Associate Professor at ASU The Design School; Faculty Affiliate at The Sidney Poitier New American Film School and The Biomimicry Center; AIA 2020 Educator of the Year Award, Arizona Chapter.
  • Standley is an artist whose work crosses disciplines of choreography, performance and visual arts practices (including video, sculpture, drawing, and live art).
  • Sha's research concerns ethico-aesthetic improvisation, and a topological approach to morphogenesis and process philosophy.